Busy Week Opens as Delegates Set for Conventions
Wyoming and Rhode Island GOP conventions draft delegates as Taft and Eisenhower race toward the Chicago nominating rally. Kefauver attends preconvention events. Missouri Virginia Nevada Utah shows varied delegations. Stassen aims for GOP compromise. Dems pledge Williams in Michigan and attach mixed loyalties to Russell Stevenson Kerr.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wyoming
Rhode Island
Taft
Eisenhower
Associated Press
Nevada
Utah
Michigan
Missouri
Virginia
Richard Russell
Georgia
Gov
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
G. Mennen Williams
West Virginia
North Oral
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Hawaii
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Minnesota
Stassen
Chicago
Oil Workers Tighten Strike In Eight Midwest States
CIO Oil Workers Union plans tighter nationwide strike across eight Midwestern states with picketing to be intensified where legal. Cleveland refinery pickets withdrawn from Standard Oil. Sohio refineries remain picketed. Wage Stabilization Board meeting set as government seeks to halt the strike. Knight travels to Washington to press for a contract while a signicant wage agreement with Standard Oil of California is reached.
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Toledo
CIO Oil Workers Union
Midwest
Cleveland
Standard Oil Co
Sohio
Wage Stabilization Board
United States
Britain
O. A. Knight
CIO Oil Workers International
Washington
WSB
Independent Union of Petroleum Workers
Standard Oil of
California
Knight
Winnie Judd Death Sentence Commuted to Life
Phoenix May 12 The death sentence of Winnie Ruth Judd for the 1931 trunk murder case was commuted to life imprisonment after Gov. Howard Pyle acted on a pardons board recommendation. Judd, 48, killed and dismembered two women friends and concealed their bodies in trunks sent to Los Angeles.
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Phoenix
Winnie Ruth Judd
Arizona State Hospital
Howard Pyle
State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Charles Davis Dies At New Straitsville
Charles Weston Davis 71 retired mine foreman died suddenly at his New Straitsville home. He led the Lost Run mine for Essex Coal Co and was a New Straitsville Mason. Survived by wife Lina son Carl Barberton daughter Mrs Maxwell Hall Columbus and siblings. Funeral Wednesday 2 p.m. at residence with Rev Owen Plumley. burial New Straitsville Cemetery. Masonic services Tuesday evening.
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Charles Weston Davis
New Straitsville
Davis
Lost Run
Hocking County
Essex Coal Co
Sadie Ingham
Edward Sharp
Columbus
Nettie Grandy
Owen Plumley
Mills & Brown
Quiet at Ohio River Collieries mine after deputized troop
96 workers at Ohio River Collieries strip mine near Cheshire have been deputized by Gallia County Sheriff George Ehman and carry arms. A temporary injunction limits UMW picketing, with a hearing set for May 19. Sheriff seeks four more deputies as access to mine property is controlled.
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Ohio River Collieries, Inc
Cheshire
United Mine Workers
Strip Mine
Gallia County
George Ehman
Gallia
Ellender Eyes End to Grain Probes Amid Silence on Dragouts
Sen. Ellender, head of the Senate Agriculture Committee, says he hopes the windup of the inquiry into the Agriculture Department’s farm price supports and storage program proceeds without delays. He notes some lax administration and mentions crooks involved, while Secretary Brannan asks to address charges of a coverup. Senator Aiken presses for detailed explanations and challenges Brannan’s final say.
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Ellender
D-La
Agriculture Department
Senate Agriculture Committee
Sen. Aiken
R-Vi
Aiken
Brannan
Method In Her Madness at judiciary reception
Mrs Harold Burton wife of the Supreme Court Justice smiled when told she wore two earrings on one ear. In her apartment building elevator she explained that her hat covered the right ear and she arranged both bobs to show on her left ear at a judiciary reception.
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Washington
Harold Burton
Supreme Court
Housing Credit Relief Discussed by Federal Board Members
Sentiment grows in government circles for easing down payment requirements on mid and high price homes not selling well. Federal Reserve Board members favoring change consult Housing and Home Finance Administrator Raymond Foley. Regulation X scales start at 1550 for an 8000 house and reach 50 percent above 24500. veterans loans have lower down payments. Some argue for a one third down on high priced homes and a more even scale toward 15000 class. The final decision is expected in a few weeks.
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Washington
Raymond Foley
Reserve Board
Body of Pvt John A Martin Recovered From Maumee River
The body of Pvt. John A. Martin, 25, was recovered Sunday from the Maumee River six miles below the Grand Rapids Dam. He drowned April 26 when a rubber raft capsized on the dam.
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Toledo
John A. Martin
Maumee
Grand Rapids Dam
West Germany reels as East threats loom over peace pact
Bonn reports hint East German rulers plan a drastic Cold War step up against the West as Bonn braces for West Germany's peace treaty. Riots in Essen leave one dead and many injured while Adenauer meets rebel coalition leaders amid pushback on arming for a European army. East Zone sources say Berlin unification and eviction of occupation forces may follow with a possible Moscow mediated peace compact.
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West Germany
Essen
East Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
United States
Britain
France
Berlin
West Berlin
Politburo
East Zones
Socialist Unity Party
Supreme Court Begins Steel Seizure Case Arguments
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments from the administration and steel industry to decide if President Truman's seizure of the steel mills was legal. The central issue is whether the President has inherent constitutional power to seize private industries in national emergencies, with the court noting possible alternative paths.
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Washington
U. S. Supreme Court
Truman
Justice Department
Supreme Court
High Tribunal
James Marlow
Associated Press
Supreme Court angles on Truman steel seizure question
AP analyst James Marlow analyzes how the Supreme Court might rule on President Truman’s steel mill seizure, explaining the tribunal’s approach and potential implications for the controversial policy.
Temporary measures urged to avert imminent threat
The text argues for temporary action not prohibited by Constitution or statutes to avert an imminent threat. It asserts that the solution does not require pressing juristic principles to extreme abstractions.
Supreme Court weighs steel seizure case urged by industry
The industry asks the Supreme Court to uphold Judge Pine’s April 29 ruling that Truman’s April 8 steel seizure was unconstitutional. The Justice Department backed by CIO Steelworkers seeks reversal. Oral arguments set for Monday. outcomes hinge on whether the court addresses injunction or broad unwritten executive powers.
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Supreme Court
Davis A. Pine
Pine
Truman
Justice Department
CIO Steelworkers Union
Minister George H. Simonson Dies at 81
Cincinnati church leader Dr. George H. Simonson aged 81, a retired Presbyterian minister, died Sunday at Bethesda Hospital. He served as pastor in Newls during his tenure before retirement.
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Cincinnati
George H. Simonson
Bethesda Hospital
Simonson
Newls
Allies Accuse Reds of Propaganda at Armistice Talks
UN Command accuses North Korea of using Panmunjom talks as a propaganda platform. Joy denounces the onslaught as vicious and prepared, while Nam Il rejects a recess. Talks remain deadlocked over prisoner exchanges as warplanes hit the Kanggye Sinanju rail line and Huichon bridge.
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Munsan
United Nations Command
Korea
Adm. C. Turner Joy
UN Command
Nam II
William P. Nuckols
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Kanggye- Sinanju
Huichon
Sunchon
Logan Spelling Champion Impresses Judges at State Finals
Logan Spelling Champion Logan earned third place in the state finals at Columbus and faced debate over the spelling of chiffonnier with two n’s. He received a Lord Elgin watch for third, while the winner earned a Lincoln Library. Thirty students joined the television portion, with words set by Peter Grant of WLW. A Columbus Zoo picnic followed.
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Harry Kitchen
Logan
Columbus
Harry
Webster
Lord Elgin
Lincoln Library
Peter Grant
WLW
Columbus Zoo
Lausche appoints Kitchen to Natural Resources post
Governor Frank Lausche names Harry Kitchen as director of the Department of Natural Resources in a simulated state government exercise. Kitchen touts finishing Lake Logan as his first objective in the role.
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Frank Lausche
Harry Kitchen
Department of Natural Resources
Logan
Lake Logan
County finalists shine in televised spelling contest
Curtis Griffith of Pickerington and Janet Risch of Enterprise reached the finals. Risch, the county champion, placed 11th in the televised portion and narrowly missed a word, while she excelled in the written test, missing only one of fifty words.
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Curtis Griffith
Pickerington
Janet Risch
Enterprise
Logan Champ
Miss Risch
Hocking County
Federal Aides Press Battle Against KKK
The federal government presses the trial of 11 former Ku Klux Klansmen for violating the Lindbergh kidnapping law in Wilmington North Carolina. They face possible capital punishment though prosecutors have not sought it. FBI dawn roundup February 16 led to charges of abducting a white man and woman across the South Carolina line and flogging them. The case follows a months long crackdown on the Klan across the border.
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Wilmington
N. C
Coastal Carolina
U. S
Charles P. Green
FBI
South Carolina
Bride Killed in Car Collision Near Mount Gilead
Mrs. Ethel Sands Johnson of Dayton, 39, a newlywed, died Monday when the car driven by her husband Carl Johnson, 35, crashed into a utility pole near Mount Gilead. He escaped injury. The second brief notes the Office of Education's estimate of 1,186,000 high school graduates nationwide this scholastic year.
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Mount Gilead
Ethel Sands Johnson
Dayton
Here
Carl
Washington
Office of Education
United States
Italy Strikes Halt Newspapers for 24 Hours
Rome reports indicate a 24 hour stoppage over wage demands, marking the second disruption in under a month as publishers protest for higher pay. The action halted daily presses across the city on May 12.
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Rome
Italy
Wall collapses at prizefight kills 31 in Bellville
At Bellville Argentina on Saturday a wall fell onto a prizefight crowd, killing thirty one people and injuring at least one hundred. In Lebanon Ohio a high school senior Robert Barr, seventeen, died from injuries after a collision on Route 73.
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Bellville
Argentina
Lebanon
Robert Barr
Middletown
Ohio
Defense Department lists 3 Korean War dead and 7 wounded
Washington reports a Defense Department casualty list identifying three more Korean War deaths and seven wounded as of Monday May 12. The released names reflect ongoing hostilities and toll on U S forces.
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Defense Department
Everett McWilliams Ends War Service
Everett McWilliams of Logan returned to his job as an electrician at GE Logan Glass Works after Navy discharge following 14 months aboard the destroyer Collett. He served four years in the Navy in World War II, was recalled in January 1950, and fought in battles off the Korean coast. He is married to Margene Holmes and was a fire controlman first class.
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Everett McWilliams
Logan
G E Logan Glass Works
Navy
Colett
Collett
Mr. McWilliams
Margene Holmes
General Dodd freed by North Koreans after coercive demands
Seoul May 12 UN officials said agreements with the Communists may not be honored in the release of Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd, who was kidnaped on Koje Island. Gen Clark indicated North Korean prisoners demanded concessions, including refusal to rearm prisoners and a POW representative group, while Dodd said threats to use force influenced his release.
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United Nations
Francis T. Dodd
Mark W. Clark
Far East
Tokyo
Clark
Koje Island
Dodd
Koje
General Colson
General Dodd
UN No
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